The Nigerian Army has captured eighty five bags of smuggled rice in a compound in Abor-Uwani community in Afikpo-North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The raid is part of the on-going “Exercise Atilogwu Udo 1’’.
The Deputy Director, Public Relations of 82-Division of the Nigerian Army Colonel Aliyu Yusuf. who announced this in a statement, said the smuggled bags of rice, each weighing 50 kilograms were intercepted through intelligence received by troops of Sector-6 Abakaliki of the exercise.
The Spokesman added that the suspects, the truck, and the bags of rice had been handed over to the Ebonyi State Commissioner for Internal Affairs for further action.
In a related development, Yusuf said the troops in Sector-6 in conjunction with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA raided the hideout of suspected drug dealers in Abakaliki town, while items recovered in the area included suspected wraps of marijuana, tramadol, and cocaine among other things.
